When the world’s largest, smartest, and best performing investors (like institutional fund managers) want valuable investment advice, that is not factually incorrect nor misleading, where do they find it? Do they go to an estate agent ? Do they expect to receive it from people with no qualifications  in the subject ? With no higher educational degrees in the subject ? With no experience working in highly reputable, professional institutional organizations ? With no professional licenses ?

No, professional investors do not rely on advice from people without specific degrees, reputable experience, nor professional licenses. If they did, their investment performance would not maintain their investment performance nor reputations for long. Instead they seek this caliber advice from investment banks, professional consulting & advisory firms. This is called independent professional advice.  Or to be certain the advice is independent and therefore best advise for the purpose, they may choose to hire the experts to work in their firm.

The choice from all of these solutions ensures their success, and...

All the choices for independent professional advice, have three common qualifying characteristics:

Independent- the advisor has no conflict of interests with the investor, but instead has the same mutually aligned interests. Not like agents and the lawyers and Citizenship advisors that collude together to defraud the investor by sharing hidden profits at the buyers’ expense.

Professional – the advisor has a caliber of knowledge, training, and experience to be qualified as an expert- it does not mean a person that has an education in pottery making working as a brain surgeon- yet unfortunately very few agents have any qualifications in specific real estate practice.

Advice- providing information is not providing advice: advice requires wide and deep comprehension of multiple dimensions applicable to a wide range of scenarios appropriate for client’s personal circumstances. This requires far more specialist knowledge, training and experience, than merely giving information.

The minimum qualifications required before an advisor may even begin on the path to becoming classified as an expert, are:

Education- Higher Academic Degrees in specific real estate disciplines…

Experience- professional working experience in a reputable institutional organisation… The minimum is 3 – 5 years, before embarking on the path to becoming an expert, for which 15 years is required, and 25 years is normal for a senior expert.

Licenses- regulatory licenses, usually in more than one jurisdiction and more than one area of practice.

Ask yourself, does your present advisor qualify ?

Free Advice – Simple, Cheap and Easy…?

Free Advice is usually no more valuable than misleading information…and is very costly !

Not Simple-  the complications it will lead to will leave you holding a bag of headaches and nightmares for a very long time… see below, scroll down to ‘The Iskan 'Habitation Certificate' Amnesty....’.

Not Cheap… the cost you may not see immediately, but when you realize how much these hidden costs are, you will live with regret…

Not Easy… rectifying the complications can be so difficult that even the best experts will not want to be involved helping to fix things...

The next time you are tempted by searching the internet, or a smooth talking salesman, remember…

Avoid the temptation…

Exercise a little self-discipline instead ...!

Do your self a favour… !